Example sentences of "he be [verb] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Er the next bed to me and he he were trying to talk to me and I er he and he wanted one of my buttons of my tunic .
2 He also became disenchanted with the amount of the correspondence ; his replies become shorter and shorter until , in September 1937 , his secretary wrote , " Mr Eliot also asked me to say that he is intending to write to you as soon as he has several consecutive free hours " .
3 The Lord is waiting to speak to us , he 's waiting to speak to you , he 's waiting to me , through his word .
4 ‘ If he 's offered to come to me , he ca n't be much good . ’
5 What do you think he 's going to do to her ! ’
6 Then Nick stopped the car and I thought — he 's going to talk to me .
7 Perhaps he 's going to wave to us .
8 You need to think about the person 's circumstances , and that 's where it 's great , that you can come back and sit down with your manager , and he 's going to say to you well what do you think .
9 ‘ The manager has made up his mind and he 's going to stick to it . ’
10 She would be totally crazy to allow any further familiarity with Miguel Rafaelo , no matter how attractive he was beginning to appear to her .
11 He was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations .
12 He was determined to lie to her to the very end .
13 Having chosen the role of the infinitely reasonable older man , he was determined to stick to it — ‘ you have read too many detective stories . ’
14 In the village he was told to come to us because we came from Yugoslavia too .
15 Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him .
16 ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you .
17 Maxim leafed through them because — as he was forced to admit to himself-he had no idea of how to approach Clare Hall .
18 He soon realised , though , that he was expected to listen to me as well .
19 ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver .
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